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“It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.”

Wells Done Hands Understanding Taken Impossible Understood Reluctant Well Done

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“It seems to me that Mr. Sculley understood the very nucleus of existence, that he had kept his young eyes and young heart even though his body had grown old. He saw straight through to the cosmic order of things, and he knew that life is not held only in flesh and bone, but also in those objects - a good, faithful pair of shoes; a reliable car; a pen that always works; a bike that has taken you many a mile.”

Heart Body Seems Eye Young Life Is Order Existence Taken Saws Car Objects Understood Shoes Bones Flesh Miles Faithful Pairs Pens Cosmic Bike Pair Of Shoes Good Faith Nucleus Young At Heart

Author:Robert R. McCammon

“I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?”

World Ideas Feelings Lying Taken Understood Symbols Bottles Milk

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying glass to the first of these four quadrants, the female experience of powerlessness. I saw I was subconsciously making a false assumption: The more deeply I understood women's experience of powerlessness, the more I assumed men had the power women did not have. In fact, what I was understanding was the female experience of male power.”

Men Years Firsts Facts Past Understanding Taken Saws Four Listening Understood Female Twenties Males Glasses Assumption Powerlessness Magnifying Magnifying Glass False Assumptions

Author:Warren Farrell

“I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.”

Thinking World Want Humans Stills Important Hard Use Wanted Mother Choices Fighting Easy Human Beings Taken Talent Understood Feminist Grandmother My Grandmother Reservations

Author:Erica Jong

“Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.”

Ifs Art Enough Hands Young Felt Known Taken Masters Understood Painter Pencils Raphael

Book:Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times.”

People Want Mean Left Understanding Taken Havens Understood Treated Granted Destructive Taken For Granted

Book:BRING ME A UNICORN

Source: BRING ME A UNICORN

“Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need to full perfection brought. The daring of the soul proceeds from thence, Sharpness of wit, and active diligence; Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives; And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)

“Every child has a legitimate narcissistic need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother. In the first weeks and months of life he needs to have the mother at his disposal, must be able to use her and to be mirrored by her.”

Needs Firsts Children Use Able Mother Taken Week Months Understood Narcissistic

Book:Prisoners of Childhood

Source: Prisoners of Childhood

“Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when taken literally, but reveals some of the deepest truths of humankind when understood mythically, poetically, and even allegorically-that is when it is read with an active and creative imagination.”

Law Religion Speak Imagination Creative Taken Understood Active Myth Tolerance Silly Organized Nonsense Openness Sane Humankind Organized Religion Creative Imagination

Author:Rami M. Shapiro

“I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a photographer who was a friend of a friend and I very quickly understood the potential of expression in photography.”

Taken Expression Photography Understood Photographer Accidents Assistants

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“America is the one place in the world where I just innately understood [that] South Africa and the United States of America have a very similar history. It's different timelines, but the directions we've taken and the consequences - dealing with the aftermath of what we consider to be democracy, and realizing that freedom is just the beginning of the conversation, that's something I've learned.”